SQL Contract Job Trends in Bristol

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 37 22
Rank change year-on-year +19 -15 -1
Contract jobs citing SQL 61 40 70
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 7.97% 4.61% 6.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.50% 15.44% 22.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 27 53
10th Percentile £375 £380 £406
25th Percentile £400 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £538 £613 £638
90th Percentile £575 £745 £728
South West median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - - £51.57
25th Percentile - £25.26 £55.79
Median hourly rate - £27.13 £66.64
Median % change year-on-year - -59.29% +0.21%
75th Percentile - £28.99 £77.55
90th Percentile - - £81.81
South West median hourly rate £36.00 £30.00 £45.50
% change year-on-year +20.00% -34.07% -20.43%

All Programming Languages
Bristol

SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 200 259 308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 26.14% 29.87% 29.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 113 213
10th Percentile £313 £365 £325
25th Percentile £400 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £500 £468
Median % change year-on-year -3.20% +6.95% -6.50%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £619
90th Percentile £623 £638 £688
South West median daily rate £513 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -5.09% +2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 70 37
10th Percentile £61.55 £62.00 £60.00
25th Percentile - £65.31 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -0.76%
75th Percentile £70.00 - £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.50 -
South West median hourly rate £65.75 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -6.07% +7.69% -

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

SQL job vacancy trend in Bristol

SQL
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Bristol over the 6 months to 17 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Bristol

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (11.48%) Oracle Application Server
2 5 (8.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (8.20%) SharePoint
2 5 (8.20%) Skype for Business
3 1 (1.64%) Apache
3 1 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 5 (8.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 24 (39.34%) Azure
2 21 (34.43%) AWS
3 16 (26.23%) Power Platform
4 9 (14.75%) GCP
5 7 (11.48%) Snowflake
6 6 (9.84%) Power Automate
7 5 (8.20%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (8.20%) Microsoft Copilot
8 4 (6.56%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (4.92%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (3.28%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (3.28%) OCI
11 1 (1.64%) Amazon S3
11 1 (1.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (1.64%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.84%) HTTP
2 5 (8.20%) DHCP
2 5 (8.20%) DNS
2 5 (8.20%) Skype
2 5 (8.20%) Unified Communications
3 3 (4.92%) 2G
3 3 (4.92%) 5G
3 3 (4.92%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (3.28%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (26.23%) Power BI
2 9 (14.75%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (13.11%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (11.48%) Oracle ODI
4 7 (11.48%) Relational Database
5 6 (9.84%) Oracle Reports
5 6 (9.84%) Star Schema
6 5 (8.20%) Big Data
6 5 (8.20%) BigQuery
6 5 (8.20%) Oracle Database
7 4 (6.56%) MySQL
8 3 (4.92%) ClickHouse
8 3 (4.92%) MongoDB
8 3 (4.92%) NoSQL
8 3 (4.92%) SQL Server
9 2 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (3.28%) DynamoDB
9 2 (3.28%) Oracle Database 12c
9 2 (3.28%) Power Query
10 1 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 8 (13.11%) Git
2 6 (9.84%) DBeaver
2 6 (9.84%) JIRA
3 4 (6.56%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (1.64%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.64%) Oracle Forms
General
1 15 (24.59%) Social Skills
2 14 (22.95%) Finance
3 11 (18.03%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (14.75%) Public Sector
5 6 (9.84%) Banking
5 6 (9.84%) Telecoms
6 4 (6.56%) Manufacturing
6 4 (6.56%) Marketing
7 3 (4.92%) Electronics
8 2 (3.28%) Tech for Good
9 1 (1.64%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.64%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 21 (34.43%) Developer
2 19 (31.15%) Senior
3 13 (21.31%) Data Engineer
4 9 (14.75%) Senior Developer
5 7 (11.48%) Analyst
6 6 (9.84%) Quality Engineer
7 5 (8.20%) Analytics Manager
7 5 (8.20%) Business Intelligence Manager
7 5 (8.20%) Lead
7 5 (8.20%) Senior Analytics Manager
7 5 (8.20%) Senior Manager
7 5 (8.20%) Wintel Engineer
8 4 (6.56%) Applications Support Analyst
8 4 (6.56%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 4 (6.56%) Power BI Developer
8 4 (6.56%) Senior Analyst
8 4 (6.56%) Senior Applications Support
8 4 (6.56%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
8 4 (6.56%) Senior Support Analyst
8 4 (6.56%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.39%) React
2 6 (9.84%) AngularJS
2 6 (9.84%) JMS
2 6 (9.84%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 6 (9.84%) SOAP
2 6 (9.84%) XML
2 6 (9.84%) XSD
3 5 (8.20%) .NET
4 3 (4.92%) .NET Core
4 3 (4.92%) Node.js
5 2 (3.28%) PySpark
5 2 (3.28%) Spring
6 1 (1.64%) CSS
6 1 (1.64%) GraphQL
6 1 (1.64%) HTML
6 1 (1.64%) Hugging Face
6 1 (1.64%) JWT
6 1 (1.64%) OAuth
6 1 (1.64%) OAuth2
6 1 (1.64%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.48%) Replication
2 5 (8.20%) PKI
3 4 (6.56%) IoT
3 4 (6.56%) Management Information System
4 3 (4.92%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.92%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (4.92%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.28%) NB-IoT
6 1 (1.64%) Clustering
6 1 (1.64%) FMCG
6 1 (1.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.20%) Windows
1 5 (8.20%) Windows Server
2 3 (4.92%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (37.70%) Agile
2 20 (32.79%) Business Intelligence
3 19 (31.15%) ETL
4 17 (27.87%) Analytics
5 13 (21.31%) Test Automation
6 11 (18.03%) CI/CD
7 10 (16.39%) Mentoring
8 9 (14.75%) DevOps
8 9 (14.75%) OO
9 8 (13.11%) Change Management
9 8 (13.11%) ITIL
9 8 (13.11%) Project Delivery
9 8 (13.11%) Scrum
10 7 (11.48%) Software Engineering
11 6 (9.84%) AI
11 6 (9.84%) Data Modelling
11 6 (9.84%) Dimensional Modelling
11 6 (9.84%) OOP
12 5 (8.20%) Service Management
12 5 (8.20%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 24 (39.34%) Python
2 9 (14.75%) JavaScript
3 8 (13.11%) PL/SQL
3 8 (13.11%) PowerShell
4 6 (9.84%) TypeScript
5 5 (8.20%) C#
6 3 (4.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (4.92%) Java
7 1 (1.64%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (24.59%) SC Cleared
1 15 (24.59%) Security Cleared
2 6 (9.84%) Degree
3 5 (8.20%) CCNA
3 5 (8.20%) CCNP
3 5 (8.20%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (8.20%) ITIL Certification
3 5 (8.20%) Master's Degree
3 5 (8.20%) MCSE
3 5 (8.20%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.28%) OCA
4 2 (3.28%) OCP
4 2 (3.28%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.64%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.48%) Data Quality
1 7 (11.48%) GDPR
2 4 (6.56%) QA
System Software
1 5 (8.20%) Active Directory
1 5 (8.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
1 5 (8.20%) Virtual Servers
1 5 (8.20%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.28%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (1.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (8.20%) SCCM
1 5 (8.20%) Terraform
1 5 (8.20%) WSUS
2 2 (3.28%) Ansible
2 2 (3.28%) Data Guard
2 2 (3.28%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (1.64%) Grafana
3 1 (1.64%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.64%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.64%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (36.07%) Microsoft
2 14 (22.95%) Oracle
3 6 (9.84%) Blue Prism
3 6 (9.84%) ServiceNow
4 5 (8.20%) Cisco
4 5 (8.20%) Databricks
4 5 (8.20%) Google
4 5 (8.20%) SolarWinds
4 5 (8.20%) Splunk
4 5 (8.20%) Veeam
4 5 (8.20%) VMware
5 3 (4.92%) SAP
6 2 (3.28%) BMC
6 2 (3.28%) Remedy
7 1 (1.64%) IFS